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Official website of Kindle Best-Selling Author -- Thomas K. Carpenter.
His novels include The Digital Sea trilogy, the Gamers trilogy and the Alexandrian Saga. He also writes short stories and edits a yearly anthology about augmented reality called Mirror Shards. His fiction can be found at all online retailers in electronic and paperback form.
If you would like to communicate futher, please contact him at carpe (at) centurytel (dot) net. You can also follow on twitter - @thomaskcarpente.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Galaxy Tab – Now With Augmented Reality
Tweet Good to see AR being bandied about as a marketing term without much explanation. Sadly, I still have to explain AR to most people I talk to outside the tech arena, so for now it’s just one of those flashy … Continue reading
5 Things I Want Kinect To Do
Tweet The Kinect has become an indie revolution, open sourced and hacked to provide a wealth of effects we haven’t had access to for augmented reality. The Kinect Hacks site is doing a terrific job covering the revolution, but I … Continue reading
Posted in augmented reality, Robot Apocalypse
Tagged augmented reality, future-technology, google, Kinect, PrimeSense
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Football and a Chapter
Tweet The last few weeks have been hectic. I’ve finished five shorts, including a requested story for an anthology, and finished the latest edits on my most recent novel Gamers. I still have to type in the edits and write … Continue reading
Posted in The Writer's Life, Writing / Publishing
Tagged augmented reality, future-technology, George RR Martin, the digital sea, The Writer's Life, WOTF
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Control the Humanoid Robot by Kinect
Tweet Crazy good translation of human movement into the robot. I wonder if that movement memory can be retained by the robot so they can learn to do complicated actions without reams of upfront programming.
Kinect: Ultra-Seven Code
Tweet I’m not familiar with the superhero Ultra-Seven, but wearing a boomerang on the back of your head seems like a bad idea. The Kinect porn superheros can’t be far behind. Go here for the code.
The Stainless Steel Rat Created WikiLeaks
Tweet The Stainless Steel Rat series from Harry Harrison is one of my childhood science fiction favorites. The books follow James Bolivar DiGriz, aka the Stainless Steel Rat, an anti-hero whose charm and quick-wit make him a likable criminal as he robs … Continue reading
Posted in augmented reality, Random Musings, The Writer's Life
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Kinect Makes Green Screens Easy
Tweet As we saw by the recent poll on Games Alfresco, the Kinect is the biggest thing in augmented reality right now. Even since my last review of Kinect, there have been many new innovations. Using Kinect as a real time … Continue reading


